Monday, November 18, 2013

Let the Christmas Crafting Begin!

Here in Oklahoma, we are so very lucky to have a store like the Paper Crown where we can go to take some fabulous classes. On Saturday, Bobbie from My Creative Life Diary taught a class with four beautiful projects! Bobbie is so generous in everything she does, and is a genuinely beautiful person, inside and out. Check out her blog - she does amazing work.

Our first project was this adorable rosette ornament:

Next up we made this fun Christmas notebook to keep our holiday receipts and to jot down important notes for the holiday. Isn't it festive?!?

We also covered a photo album with these fun papers and embellishments:

And this - believe me when I tell you that the photos cannot do this beautiful project justice. The finished project is approximately 15 inches tall and is so freakin' adorable! I'm not a fan of hunting or deer heads but this wall hanging is just too sweet for words.

Can you believe we did all these projects for one class? We all had so much fun.

Stay tuned - I've got lots of stuff to talk about coming up. I took another fun class on Sunday, I've signed up for Dawn Sokol's Christmas countdown journal class and also for Christy Tomlinson's Ornament class. Can't even wait!

7 comments:

It was great to see you on sunday for the lace ship class.........you are on a class roll girl! Thanks for always being so supportive of the Paper Crown and the classes Cindy offers! See you saturday morning!

great stuff! I love all of it, but especially the reindeer wreath! I wish we had a fun place to take classes here... but there are none! I need to talk to my aunt and plan a crafty weekend way in advance for next year so you can plan to come!have a great weekxoxovivian

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